HS Theater 2-4 3rd Six Weeks Vocab Test Review

What is a style of stage where the audience sits surrounding the stage (audience on all sides)?

• Arena Stage

• Thrust Stage

• Open Stage

What is a trial run or "tryout" for a particular part in a play called?

• Audition

• Call Back

• Closed Audition

• Casting

What is a second audition at which only those actors under serious consideration for roles are called in for another reading called?

• Call Back

• Casting

• Audition

• Closed Audition

What is the process of selecting actors for various roles called?

• Casting

• Call Back

• Type Casting

• Closed Audition

What is an audition open only to union members or those represented by an agent?

• Closed Audition

• Audition

• Call Back

• Type Casting

What are the final rehearsals before opening night, run without stopping with all production elements in place called?

• Dress Rehearsals

• Auditions

• Closed Auditions

• Casting

What is an introspective approach to acting that aims at extreme naturalism, in which the actor seeks to identify inwardly with the character and work from this inner motivation to outward signs of character (Based on the writings and teachings of Konstantin Stanislavsky)?

• Method Acting

• Realism

• Minimalism

• Minimal Set Design

What was the style or technique (popularized in the 1960s), in music, literature, and design that was characterized by extreme sparseness and simplicity.

• Minimalism

• Realism

• Naturalism

• Verisimilitude

What technique could be described as using pieces of stage furniture and props to indicate a setting or location?

• Minimal Set Design

• Realism

• Method Acting

• Naturalism

What was the movement in the theatre of the late 19th Century which attempted to do away with artificiality or formalism of traditional theatre of the time?

• Naturalism

• Realism

• Method Acting

• Minimalism